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Overview

Continuous improvements in image acquisition
capabilities are rapidly expanding your everyday clinical practice and
providing new ways to improve patient care. As a result, a solution for managing the growing
volume of images and making them available to you and your colleagues become as
important as the diagnostic tools themselves.

AW Server 2 is your platform for an efficient and automated workflow,
allowing you to better manage your time, equipment resources and costs while
enhancing your team’s ability to collaborate and provide a diagnosis.

The AW Server 2 delivers 3D visualization throughout your enterprise
including any remote reading location that is on your enterprise network. GE’s
thin client technology converts virtually any PC1, MAC1 or RIS/PACS2 into a high-end 3D post-processing station without the
need for expensive dedicated graphics processors. This system fosters
collaboration among physicians, facilitating integration of state-of-the-art 3D
visualization and processing capabilities into your routine workflow. By giving
you the ability to share your post-processed data and findings with your referring
physicians, report turnaround is faster while patient data remains private and
secure.3

Intended Use

AW Server is a
medical software system that allows multiple users to remotely access AW
applications from compatible computers on a network.

The system
allows networking, selection, processing and filming of multimodality DICOM images.1

AW Server is not
intended for diagnosis of mammography images.

For other images, trained
physicians may use the images as a basis for diagnosis upon ensuring that
monitor quality, ambient light conditions and image compression ratios are consistent
with clinical application.

Testimonials

A Tale of Three HospitalsBy Carolina Nieto-Garcia, MD, Interventional Radiologist, Son Espases University Hospital

For more than 20 years, GE’s Advantage Workstation (AW) engineers
have developed diagnostic applications that have lead to a robust clinical
workstation across all areas of care—oncology, cardiac, neurology,
gastroenterology, orthopedic and vascular. Radiologists’ and clinicians’ desire
for a deeper understanding of pathological processes has led to a shift from a
mere anatomical approach to medical imaging, to one that includes functional
and quantitative analysis. This approach to diagnostic imaging has led to an explosion
in the quantity of data clinicians must review, manage, and interpret. Recent
information technology advances can help address the challenges of large image
data management by offering new opportunities for the mobility of data, remote consultations, and access to information from
virtually anywhere there is an available internet connection.

“Now, we
don’t have to commute to the hospital, which can significantly improve our
quality of life.”Dr. Carolina Nieto-Garcia

The migration from analog to digital and the elimination of film has led to radiology
groups creating remote reading rooms where radiologists read for more than one
institution. In Feb 2010, Toda Central Medical Group (TMG) opened a remote reading/
interpretation center “Sai Teramedo”. The center reads for 15 facilities, including a
screening center at Toda Central General Hospital, Atami Tokoro Memorial Hospital,
and Shin Niiza Shiki Central General Hospital. Total monthly reading volume is: 421 CT;
351 MR; 2,140 general X-ray; 322 fluoroscopic; and 444 mammography cases, for an
approximate total of 3,700 cases. Two radiologists are staffed each day at Sai
Teramedo and use the AW Server for reading medical imaging studies.

“Our radiologists are simply just more
efficient…Everything they need to analyze,
view, and report a study is available on
one workstation.”Dr. Dai Kakizaki

Integration and Information the Cornerstone of RadiologyBy William P. Shuman, MD, FACR, Director of Radiology, University of Washington Medical Center

Radiology embraced the digital revolution more than 20 years ago. In most hospitals today, radiologists perform their diagnoses in virtually an all-digital environment. Alternate care sites—clinics and physician offices—are quickly following in the same direction, if they are not already there. However, as imaging and information technology advanced at varying levels over the past two decades, radiology departments have become a multisystem environment. As a result, radiologists utilize an array of systems—many from different manufacturers—to read and report the patient diagnosis. These systems include, but are not limited to, PACS, RIS, HIS, Speech Recognition, and advanced image processing.

“Because it’s much easier to use, you tend to use it more, and therefore you use
all the power of AW in your analysis of a case because it’s so readily convenient”Dr. William P. Shuman